DRAMA 1032-42 — Fundamentals of Movement

2 credits
Fall and Spring
Mark Olsen

In the first semester, students focus on development of creative and effective relationships to space, time, gravity, behavior, energy, imagery, music, breath, and text. The work is impulse-driven, dynamic, and grounded in full use of the imagination. The second semester is a laboratory of work focused on the introduction of Laban effort-shaping and the practical exploration of all aspects of gesture, including graphic, emotional, unconscious, and theatrical. There is a partial emphasis on eradicating gestural habits and providing a process of expanding gestural vocabulary. Working in all magnitudes, staying grounded in emotional truth.